Near Million Disbursed for Hard Highways
The Texas highway commission completed a two day session granting nearly 1 000 000 in state and federal road aid to counties and designating about 150 miles of new roads. Commissioner Cone Johnson warned that state and federal funds are exhausted or promised this year and next. Comal County received 22 000 aid to match 25 000 from a railroad and the city of New Braunfels plus 15 000 for an underpass on highway 46.
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Associated Press
Austin
Highway Department
Highway Commission
Cone Johnson
Sterling
Comal County
Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway
New Brausels
No Fatalities in Collision of Ships Off Point Arguello
San Pedro reports a fog bound collision between the tanker Kekoskee and the freighter Pomona near Point Arguello. No casualties. Kekoskee flooded with decks awash, Pomona damaged. Coast guard Shawnee and salvage tug Peacock assist. tow arranged to San Francisco. Crew counts: Kekoskee 35-40, Pomona 40-45.
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Associated Press
San Pedro
Calif
Marine Exchange
Point Arguello
San Francisco
Pomona
Baltimore
Everett
Washa
Kekoskee
Coast Guard
Shawnee
Peacock
Louisville Bank Robbery Nets $12,000 in Heist
The Portland Branch bank of the First National in Louisville was robbed of 12 000 by three men armed with sawed off shot guns who jumped the counter, taking cash from three employees and two customers before fleeing in an automobile. Edward Glover, once released from a London workhouse, reportedly earned 200 000 in a year at horse racing before losing wealth and health.
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Associated Press
Louisville
Portland
First National Bank of Louisville
Edward Glover
London
Smithsonian displays early world aviation models collection
Washington Oct 12 The Smithsonian Institution houses a remarkable exhibit tracing human flight from Archytus wooden birds to Langley models and the first circumnavigating plane. It includes Da Vinci wing devices, a five foot replica, and notes on Henson and Langley as pivotal in aviation history.
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Washington
Archytus
Tarentum
Langley
Smithsonian Institution
National Capital
America
Smithsonian
Smithson
Jonté Leonardo da Vinci
da Vinci
Samuel Henson
England
Samuel Pierpont Langley
Wright brothers first heavier-than-air flight at Kitty Hawk
The text covers early aviation milestones from Langley’s failed 1896 attempt to the 1903 Kitty Hawk flights. It notes the War Department’s 1898 50,000 dollar appropriation for aircraft use in the Spanish American War and Curtiss adding hydroplane floats to Langley’s plane in 1914.
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Potomac
War Department
Spain
Glenn H. Curtiss
Hammondsport
New York
Langley
Kitty Hawk
North Carolina
Wright Brothers
Riverhead Residents Seek State Help to Combat Mosquito Menace
Riverhead Long Island residents appeal to the New York Legislature for action against mosquitoes. The community admits the problem is too large to tackle locally and unites behind a state directed pest control effort.
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New York
Commission to curb summer mosquito growth
A commission is appointed and funded with 70 000 a year to explore ways to halt the steady growth of mosquitoes that arrive in the summer.
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Kansas
Oklahoma
J. M. Robinson
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Valley Center
Kas
Dave Derden
Tyler
Ete
Conenels
U.S.A
Auto Bodies
Amarillo Fender and Body Works
Polk
Guy A. Carlander
Massie
Kerr & Walsh
AmarilLo
E. F. Rittenberry
Blackburn
Chiropodists
Healey Black
Oliver Eakle Bidg
Chiropractors
L. M. Black
D. C
Palmer School of Chiropractic
Central Bidg
Cash Registers
National Cash Registers
New
National Cash Register CO
A. L. Kirtley
Amarillo, Texas
Southwestern Public Service Co
Amarillo Greenhouses
Taylor Cunningham Flower Shop
West Sixth St
Panhandle Wumber CO
Tenth
Grant
6Th
Taylor
L. Vv
Res
J. UH. Chandler
Osteopathic
Loving Printing CO
W. Seventh
John Wall
Amarillo Bldg
Liberty Finance Company
Amarillo Stoneware and Queensware Co., Inc
Cleveland
Second
International Harvester CO
Sigmon Furniture Mfg, Co
Tenth St
Fillmore St
Physicians & Surgeons
W. Forest Dutton
M. D
Puckett & Patton Physicians and Surgeons
Nan L. Gilkerson
Williams
Amarillo Typewriter Exchange
East Fourth Street
Riverhead
L. L
Legislature
International News Service
Long Island
Dows
Southwestern Public Service Company
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